Quotes about Social Responsibility
As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.
— Joyce Banda
Because when you can't hear the cry, when you stop caring for the widow, the orphan, and the refugee among you, it always leads to the diminishing of your empire.
— Rob Bell
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
— Pope John Paul II
We must end welfare programs that devalue men and spoil women.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.
— Seth Godin
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.
— Andrew Carnegie
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
— Mahatma Gandhi